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[Darren Carnall]

aw thanks about the Spock guys. seriously you all make me blush lol (siquisiri - glad you like the Ripley head!)

Here's something you don't usually see from the likes of Sideshow or Hot Toys too often, but I know you guys will be interested in it. I took photos as I was working my way through the sculpt through the weeks I was working on it. I won't be able to do this on every head I do, but I figured it would be interesting to see at least once.

Here's how it started out... a block of wax

started adding a little shape to it by dropping melted wax onto it...

starting to resemble a face now, working on one side at first...

the next few pics show the face slowly building up (the head next to it i was using as a size reference - was one of nanjin's early TOS heads before they made improvements to it)

getting closer now... still proportion changes to be made though. Not quite right yet...

general shape much better now... time to start adding details and refining I think...

finished pics in the next post....

 

[Darren Carnall]

and finally (after a while lol) the finished head. Ignore the colour differences, that's just the wax. The longer I had it on the heat it the colour slightly changed from grey to greenish-grey. Obviously you don't see that once it's been molded though.

and then the painted up pic you've seen (more to come... eventually ) - I hope that was a little interesting for some of you.

 

[eighthsamurai]

I hope that was a little interesting for some of you.

definitely like diamonds out of coal...

 

[superdoug]

Thanks for all the work in progress pictures. It's got to be a very rewarding feeling to make a sculpt like that from a block of wax.

 

[Reinhardt]

Love the step by step! Very very impressive Darren.

 

[Kuato]

Darren that is just incredible man! You had it in you all along to do a full scratch sculpt my friend. If its ok to ask where did you purchase your wax from and what kind of wax is it? Im thinking of casting a few wips sculpts into wax to refine.

 

[saintsyn]

So, so cool.... I would give anything to be able to sculpt!

 

[paulcarson]

Thanks for the step by step photgraphs Darren, you've really put a lot of effort into it! How difficult was the wax to work with ? I've seen others use it but don't have the skills or talent ( unlike yourself ) to be able to pull something like this off.

That's cool , it really is.

 

[Crimsonbob]

That was really cool to see the WIP most impressive

 

[uscmhicks]

That looks great Darren !. What an awesome job , very impressive work.

 

[AlanJG1]

Amazing work Darren!
It was definitely interesting to see the step by step pictures.
Alan

 

[Ryu]

I love the WiP pics. Thanks for posting them.

 

[Restaurajones]

Amazing job Darren!!. Best Spock sculpt I've ever seen to date. The progress pics are the most interesting of the process

 

[abake]

Awesome in progress shots Darren!
And the result is indeed breath-taking.

Can you shed some light on the Nanjin Spock HS?

 

[Staggerly]

It's an amazing sculpt, Darren! Thanks for sharing the behind-the-scenes look.

 

[galactiboy]

Great work Darren... really impressive

 

[r5150s]

fantastic work as usual !...

Rob

 

[Jessica]

and finally (after a while lol) the finished head. Ignore the colour differences, that's just the wax. The longer I had it on the heat it the colour slightly changed from grey to greenish-grey. Obviously you don't see that once it's been molded though.

and then the painted up pic you've seen (more to come... eventually ) - I hope that was a little interesting for some of you.

Good God Darren! This is most impressive! This is THE BEST sculpt I have seen of Spock! WOW!

 

[Plasticman]

Better than the original hs

 

[Jessica]

I keep looking at your sculpt of Spock. He looks so real. It makes me want to get my freak on.